North Korea wants sub back

From: The Boston Globe | Date: September 24, 1996| Author: Y. J. Ahn, Associated Press | Copyright information

KANGNUNG, South Korea -- A submarine that ran aground off South Korea must be returned, North Korea said yesterday. Engine trouble, it said, caused the vessel to drift into South Korean waters during a training mission.

It was the North's first comment on the submarine, whose discovery last Wednesday led to an escalation in hostilities between the North and South.

North Korea's Central News Agency quoted an unidentified military spokesman as saying that the submarine carried no h...

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